Christopher Lasch Quotes

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Christopher Lasch

Profession : Historian

Birth : June 1, 1932

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Christopher Lasch

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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